Bold Bedroom

Bold Bedroom

The bold horizontal stripes in the guest room in a San Francisco Victorian are "playful and modern," designer Ken Fulk says. What he calls "Rorschach inkblots" on the furry stools and rug loosen up the geometry. French silhouettes of children hang behind the Pottery Barn daybed.

Graphic Patterns

Graphic Patterns

Graphic patterns extend from the foyer in a Washington, D.C. town house through to the kitchen. "We both like snappy architectural solutions — like the patterned floor and striped wallpaper — that give black-tie panache to small spaces," designer Jeff Lincoln says of the house he designed with Hillary Thomas. The black and white of Montgomery 1 marble floor tiles by Ann Sacks and Block Print Stripe wallpaper by Farrow & Ball is reminiscent of Dorothy Draper.